[arch-dev-public] [staging] repository: Let's give it a try!

[Allan McRae]

On 12/08/10 02:24, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:56:28 -0500, Aaron Griffin
> <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Thomas Bächler
>> <thomas at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>>> So, we are adding an extra layer of confusion which there was no need
>>> for in the past. What is the problem you are trying to solve?
>>
>> As I understand it, the point is to help with overly large rebuilds,
>> allowing for multiple developers to work in parallel better. Is this
>> correct, Pierre?
>
> Exactly. In fact we already used this idea somehow when we had a jpng
> repo to prepare the libjpeg/libpng rebuilds or when we virtually freeze
> testing for a while and warning people to not use it atm because a
> rebuild is going on.
>
> My approach is simplify this and make it easier for us; so we can even
> use it for small rebuilds with just a dozen of packages involved.
>
> Let me underline again that [staging] would be no regular repo that
> would be used by anyone directly. It mainly meant for collecting
> rebuilds. Till now we either had a special repo, broke testing or one
> dev had to do the rebuild completely on his own. Using a common use case
> for these should make our lives easier.
>

I think this is worth implementing.   No matter how often we post to 
hold off updating from the [testing] repo while we do a big rebuild, 
people still do and break their system.  A staging repo would avoid that.

My only question is, how soon can this be rolled out?  I intend the big, 
big, big python rebuild to start as soon as KDE is pushed to [extra].

Allan